"Reason's Greetings, y'all. And Happy Solstice. :sparkle:

Men I've been seein'
Got their soul up on a shelf
Though they can never love me
Can't even love himself
I wanna man to love
I wanna man
that can finally understand

[ ... ]

They all want me to rock 'em
Like my back ain't got no bone
Go ahead & rock me one time, big stuff
Like my backbone was your own
(Baby, I'm not foolin' around this time)

"Love Me Like a Man" (3:56)
live, 1989
writer Chris Smither, 1970
performer Bonnie Raitt

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love

Saturday wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday never hesitate…

Merry Christmas music, and a happy new year!



Psalm 58 (KJV)
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

DIE ANTWOORD - FAT FADED FUCK FACE

Reason's Greetings (bye-bye 2023!)

Hear me ringin'
big bell tolls
Hear me singin'
soft and low
I've been beggin'
on my knees
I've been kickin',
help me, please

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (7:15)
Sticky Fingers, 1971
writers Jagger-Richards
performers The Rolling Stones

:yum:

"Y'all got – cocaine eyes!
(ah, the good ol' days :party: )

@punos agree?

I do indeed :up:

Currently listening to:

"What's Going On" (3:53)
What's Going On, 1971
writers A. Cleveland, R. Benson & M. Gaye, 1970
performer Marvin Gaye

Less known than his After Dark, but I would say just as good.

Love the guitar on this


Sorry for spamming, y'all :razz:

:chin: I can hardly hear the guitar!
And what I can hear from it, is just scratching a couple of chords ... :grin:

@Noble Dust agre

@punos agr?

agr? — Changeling

6 out of 10

bonus track:

@punos :up:

@Noble Dust I think you'll agree 10 out of 10

It's cool. I still don't know how to articulate my mixed feelings about progressive white folks obsession with the ethnicification of western musical tropes (that's not totally fair or accurate in this track, but just general thoughts about the genre). Something to make a thread about I guess, if I still had the energy to do that.

I think you'll agree 10 out of 10 — Changeling

I don't need to click play to know I agree.

UH-GREE????

UH-GREE???? — Noble Dust

I'll agree on February 30th

Actually it's pretty good to be fair

Influenced by Ravi Shankar's music and John Coltrane's album Impressions, particularly the piece "India"

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/870442

"Eight Miles High" turned on Western listeners along with the psychedelic-raga rock groove of the mid-1960s ...


"Eight Miles High" (3:34)
Fifth Dimension, 1966
writers G. Clark, R. McGuinn & D. Crosby
performer The Byrds

along with


"Tomorrow Never Knows" (2:58)
Revolver, 1966
writers Lennon-McCartney
performer The Beatles

followed-up and surpassed by


"Within You Without You" (5:05)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
writer George Harrison
performer The Beatles (only G. Harrison & members of the Asian Music Circle)

[ ... ]

and eventually back to Miles ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/870507

I was struck by how counter-counter-revolutionary these lyrics were, like saying the whole counterculture ideology was bullshit.

My father used to listen to that song often. The lyrics annoyed me back then but now I get it.

Interesting that he wrote it no later than 1964, which seems pretty early to have already wised (wosen?) up to the bullshitness of that kind of sixties politics.

If the refrain indicates that all that preceded it has been rejected now that he's wiser, then I'm left with this:

"Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, "rip down all hate, " I screamed
Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

meaning he does not buy into the statement "rip down all hate" and that he does not believe it a lie when people claim some things are black and white. An interesting nod to moral certainty at a time when that was challenged.

And then this:

"A self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty is just equality in school
"Equality, " I spoke the word as if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

A rejection that equality is the highest principle to hold to (i.e. a wedding vow).

I could go on, but I'm already boring you.

But then this is consistent with some lyrics from "To Ramona" (which some say was written about Joan Baez),

"I've heard you say many times
That you're better than no one
And no one is better than you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose."

That's my Dylan analysis for the day. I actually just saw him recently in Kentucky. It was cool to be there, but he was a bit hard to understand.

Your dad was far hipper than mine. Mine was of a generation earlier.

As a lionizer of Dylan, I do think that was his take outside of true civil reform (MLK for instance).

A beautiful rainy and cloudy morning in Madrid.